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[liz9910]

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I won't deny it was very gross but I didn't want to not check, the were very expensive and I had hopes of saving some. I keep thinking maybe I should have checked the day before but that was only day 19....mine have been pipping/hatching on days 19 and 20. The one that did hatch from the shipped eggs is tiny and weak...not sure if it's going to make it. Poor little thing

 

[ronott1]

You are so brave!

And opening them would make a person grieve for sure! I had a bunch die a while back. I couldn't open them.

I force myself to open all the eggs that are pulled.

It is sad but also a great learning tool.

 

[debs_flock]

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Wow, how old did you say? Close to a year? He/she is a tough one. Any sign of spur development?

 

[EZFarms]

My phoenix hens have never laid much. ive. read in the phoebix thread of prople getting eggs all the time from them. so idk .-. its annoying though

 

[lawatt]

Wow, how old did you say? Close to a year? He/she is a tough one. Any sign of spur development?

just about a year -- the sister has been laying since january, quite regularly. i don't see any sign of spurs, but her comb is more than twice the size of her sister's, and doesn't flop over -- even Franklin's comb flops more than hers! she doesn't crow, though (although both she & her sister complain loudly when they are in their pen, they would SO prefer to free-range all the time!) -- just doesn't lay eggs, either. she's kind of in-between.

i figure, if there are people (which there are) who end up with three sex chromosomes instead of two, perhaps the same can happen in a chicken?

just checked: i got them in june, two pullets from Shannon at Die Fly Ranch, who was selling off her breeding flock of campines (needing to focus on fewer breeds), and they were approx. 8 weeks old -- so, they should be just about a year old now. here's a picture of them from back then, I'd had them for about a week:

 

[lawatt]

Wow, how old did you say? Close to a year? He/she is a tough one. Any sign of spur development?

and now i have to take it back! since you asked the question, i went out and had a closer look -- and she DOES have tiny little nubbins where spurs would be! which her sister (the laying one) does not have at all. but the nubbins are not as large as Franklin's (who is a few months younger than the girls).

so interesting!! i have an intersex chicken!

 

[ronott1]

and now i have to take it back! since you asked the question, i went out and had a closer look -- and she DOES have tiny little nubbins where spurs would be! which her sister (the laying one) does not have at all. but the nubbins are not as large as Franklin's (who is a few months younger than the girls).

so interesting!! i have an intersex chicken!

Oddly, I have read some literature about hens that have a missing or dead ovary that will do stuff like that. sometimes they even crow.

 

[TheKeeper]

just checked: i got them in june, two pullets from Shannon at Die Fly Ranch, who was selling off her breeding flock of campines (needing to focus on fewer breeds), and they were approx. 8 weeks old -- so, they should be just about a year old now. here's a picture of them from back then, I'd had them for about a week:

Isn't Shannon nice? I got SC, BLRW, & Rumpless Araucana eggs from her last year. Good fertility & strong chicks.
I decided not to keep any Campines because they were SO flighty & nervous.
The BLRW hen is the one that just hatched 5 chocolate orp chicks. She is a good mama & semi-adopted the other 11 chicks from the 'bator.
The Rumpless Araucana turned out to be not tufted, which didn't matter to me either way. She is a gorgeous wheaten with the softest feathers. She lays medium bluish-greenish eggs. She reminds me of a guinea hen.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I have a few hens that will crow and several with *huge* sprurs and they're still laying. Always wondered why, thanks!

-Kathy

 

[Americangame]

Hello everyone,


i had a question what is the age when a roo becomes non fertile,
i have an old rooster that still tries to top the hens but im not sure if he is not fertile or just not topping them have collected about 20 eggs from varios hens he has and only a few have been fertile
only 1 has hatched so far is there a way to increase his fertility